Arvind Gupta Quotes

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

Abolish Poverty

I have always said that I want Malawi to attain growth that should not just be seen in GDP, but in the growth of opportunities for all, protection for all, and equality for all.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

With fewer resources to share around more people, how can the poor have improved lifestyles?

The best way to perpetuate poverty is by spending on arms and military, and the best way to fight terrorism is by fighting the basic needs of humanity, because hunger and poverty perpetuate crime.

Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So, it's about egalitarianism. It's about sharing things more equally. It's about access to natural resources.

All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

Shouldn't everybody join hands to give the basic minimum - food, education and health - to the entire population?

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

Government has a responsibility to the have-nots.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

In a land of great wealth, families must not live in hopeless poverty. In a land rich in harvest, children just must not go hungry. In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write.

The destiny of world civilization depends on providing a decent standard of living for all mankind …. The first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.